International civil aviation system in a globalising world

Abstract

The new era of the world is characterised with the great expansion of economic, political, social and cultural relations across borders. Offering, the fast, reliable and massive transportation, aviation stands to be the most adequate transporting instrument in meeting the rapidly growing traffic in tourism, trade and business. Notwithstanding its close affinity with globalisation urging for liberalisation, competition and multilateralism, aviation is still regulated by outmoded patchwork of restrictive bilateral treaties. The international civil aviation system is experiencing a period of unprecedented turmoil. Four new trends, multilateralism, regionalism, plurilateralisrn and globalisation, are challenging the existing bilateral system. The thesis intends to analyse the development of the international civil aviation system and to search the prospects for the international civil aviation system meeting globalisation.